Guyana set to participate in nine disciplines at CAC games

GUYANA will participate in nine of the 36 sporting disciplines at this year’s Central America and the Caribbean (CAC) Games, scheduled to run from November 14 to 30, in Veracruz, Mexico.

The Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) on Thursday at a press conference at Olympic House officially announced the full 50-man team of athletes and officials who will be representing Guyana in athletics, cycling, squash, table tennis, swimming, judo, taekwondo, badminton, and hockey.
Chef-de-Mission for the team is Deion Nurse.
With 16 athletes and three officials, hockey will field the most athletes for one sport. Hockey will be participating in the women’s category. Officials for the team are coach Philip Fernandes, Devin Hooper and Peter DeGroot.
“This is a very exciting opportunity for hockey.
Our ladies have been succeeding to the point where they are now ranked high enough to be easily included in this year’s team, and I’m excited about that,” Fernandes said at an interview yesterday.
On the team is Ashley De Groot who will also be participating in the squash segment.
Other squash players include Sunil Seth and Alexander Arjoon, both of whom had represented Guyana at the Commonwealth Games earlier this year, as well as Jason-Ray Khalil, four-time junior Caribbean champion Mary Fung-a-Fat and Ashley Khalil. Coach for the team is Ramon Chan-A-Sue.
The Athletics Association of Guyana has selected a four-man all-male team consisting of local sprint champion Winston George in addition to overseas-based Guyanese Stephan James, Adam Harris, and Jeremy Bascom. The coach for the team is Mark Scott.
Table tennis will also field a four-member team, this time with all girls – Chelsea Edghill, Natalie Cummings, Trenace Lowe, and Akecia Nedd, while the coach is Idi Lewis.
The two swimmers are Hannibal Gaskin and Brittany van Lange; the cyclists are Geron Williams and Raynauth Jeffrey’ the taekwondo athletes are Kenrick Lorrimer and Jibreel Malik.
For badminton the representing athletes are Narayan Ramdhani and Jonathan Mangru, while Judo will have a single athlete in Delroy Murphy who will be accompanied by coach Raoul Archer.

(By Tamica Garnett)

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